Category: Billiard Tours

Josh Thompson, a student at Sacramento State looks at his Facebook page on Feb. 18, 2009 at the Student Union.Facing a tough job market, Facebook “friends” and LinkedIn business associates are clicking a well-worn adage and dragging it into their virtual worlds. That old chestnut says: Getting a job is…

Appleton Takes Masters Crown at First Attempt Darren Appleton, the reigning World 10 Ball Champion became the third ever Englishman to win the PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters title following a fighting 8-4 win over Holland’s Nick Van Den Berg at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. The 33 year-old, who…

J. Pechauer SE Open / Gainesville, FL by Lea Andrews Attendance at the May 9-10 stop of the J. Pechauer Southeast Open Tour was up from last weekend as competitors eschewed a weekend with Mom for a weekend with the South’s heavy hitters. Dana and Art Rogers, owners of The…

Tri-State Tour / East Rutherford, NJ A total of 41 players gathered in Castle Billiards in E. Rutherford, NJ for the $500-added A-D Tri-State Tour event. Only one player could walk away with $630 for first, though, and it was Stu Warnock who was crowned king. Warnock was among the…

2009 PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters HOLLAND’S Nick Van Den Berg became the first player through to the semi-finals of the PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters as he held off the challenge of Johnny Archer to claim an 8-5 victory at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. It was nip and tuck…

2009 PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters Tony Drago, a winner of this event in Holland back in 2003, marched into the quarterfinals of the PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters following a comfortable 8-3 win over Dutchman Niels Feijen at the Riviera Hotel. The speedy Malteser came into the match slightly under the…

APA AWARDS $450,000 IN CASH AND PRIZES AT NATIONAL SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIPS World’s Largest Pool League Crowns Seven Amateur Champions in Las Vegas More than $450,000 in cash and prizes was awarded to American Poolplayers Association (APA) members at the APA National Singles Championships held April 29 – May 2 in…

Defending champion Alex Pagulayan of the Philippines lost his title in the opening match of the 2009 PartyPoker.net World Pool Masters as he fell victim to the superior all-round play of reigning European Champion Nick Van Den Berg. It was a great performance from the Dutchman as his safety game…

WASHINGTON – In a high-tech shift accelerated by the recession, the number of U.S. households opting for cell phones only has for the first time surpassed those that just have traditional land lines. It is the freshest evidence of the growing appeal of wireless phones. Twenty percent of households had…

Broadband carried SureWest Communications to a 19 percent jump in first-quarter revenue, the Roseville-based company said Wednesday. Revenue in the first three months of 2009 grew to $60.9 million, compared with $51.3 million in the first quarter of 2008. Much of the gain came from the broadband sector. Revenue soared…